Rail-joint



(No Model.)

T. J. KENNEDY. RAIL JOINT.

No. 482,796. vPatented Sept. 20, 1892.

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. NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

THOMAS JAMES KENNEDY, OF RENFREW, PENNSYLVANIA.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 482,796, dated September 20, 1892.

Application iiled May 7, 1892. Serial No. 432,190. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, THOMAS JAMES KEN- NEDY, a citizen ofthe United States, residing at Renfrew, in the county of Butler and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Rail-Joint, of which `the following is a Specification.

Theinvention relates to improvements in rail-joints.

'Iiieebjet of the present invention is to V/,simplify and improve the construction of railjoints, and to provide one which may be readily applied to rails and which will secu rely hold them in proper position.

The invention consists in the construction and novel combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claims hereto appended.

In the drawings, Figure l is a perspective View of a rail-joint constructedin accordance with this invention. Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional view. Fig. 3 is a detail perspective View of the base-plate. Fig. 4 is a similar view of the removable inner iish-plate.

Like numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures ot the drawings.

l designates-a base-plate adapted to support the meeting ends of rails 2 and forming a iat seat forjthe same and provided at its youter end with an integral outer fish-plate 3,

between which and a removable inner shplate 4 the rails 2 are clamped. The outer iish-plate conforms to the con figuration of the rails and consists of avertical and an inclined portion, and its inclined portion forms, with between thelugs of the base-plate, and after the removable {ish-plate is in contact with the rails it may be moved longitudinally to cause the lugs to interlock. The removable fish-plate is held against longitudinal movementto prevent its becoming accidentally unlocked by wedges 7, which when the removable fish-plate t is in proper position and the lugs are interlocked are driven in the intervals or spaces between the lugs. The base-plate is provided at its end with spikerecesses 8, adapted to receive spikes for securing the base-plate toa cross-tie. The wedges, besides holding the inner fish-plate against longitudinal movement, also cause it to clamp the rails.

1. A rail-joint comprising a base-plate forming a seat for rails and provided at one end with an integral fish-plate and having at its other end lugs arranged at intervals and having their inner ends beveled, a removable fish-plate provided on its lower face with lugs having their outer ends beveled and arranged at intervals and adapted to interlock with the lugs of the base-plate, and means for holding the lugs in engagement, substantially as described.

2. A rail-joint comprising a base-plate forming a seat for rails and provided at one end with an integral fish-plate and having at its other end lugs arranged at intervals and having their inner ends beveled, a removable fish-plate provided on its lower face with lugs having their outer'ends beveled and arranged at intervals and adapted to interlock with the lugs of the base-plate, and wedges arranged in the intervals or spaces between the lugs and holding the removable fish-plates against longitudinal movement and causing the same to clamp rails, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto aihxed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

THOMAS JAMES KENNEDY.

Witnesses:

LEN McQUis'rIoN, W. E. MURRIN. 

